Re: [81attendees] 3G Prepaid Data SIM Card

Ted Lemon <mellon@fugue.com> Sun, 24 July 2011 13:16 UTC

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Subject: Re: [81attendees] 3G Prepaid Data SIM Card
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On Jul 24, 2011, at 9:10 AM, David Sinicrope wrote:
> Anyone have advice on which Canadian mobile carrier I can use to get a SIM card with a prepaid 3G data only plan?  

I wound up picking Rogers - $7.50 for a week, with a 125M limit.   Believe it or not, that seemed like the best deal.   However, it's a bit of a pain to get them to sell you a card if you don't have a Canadian address.   I wound up using the address of my hotel, and that worked, but there was a lot of wrangling.